TOURS IN PERNAMBUCO

CITY TOUR – RECIFE AND OLINDA

You will visit the City of Recife, the largest cultural center and leisure services in the Northeast. A City of distinctive features. Recife fascinates by its rivers, its bridges and the perfect harmony between the old and the modern architecture, a legacy of the Portuguese colonial era in Brazil.

Among the attractions of the itinerary, the panoramic beach of Boa Viagem, one of the most beautiful urban beaches in the country, with its edge of elegant buildings, huts of coconuts and sea of green and natural pools. The José Estelita Pier, integrated to the watershed of Pina. The old Five Point Fortress (1630), the ancient district of Recife (stop), displaying the Park of Sculptures by Francisco Brennand on the pier of the harbour, a structure of buildings from the Seventeenth Century to the beginning of the 20th Century and Rua (street) do Bom Jesus, known during the Flemish period as Rua dos Judeus (Jewish) for hosting a Jewish commerce and the Synagogue Kahal Zur Israel, the first of the Americas, today's a cultural center.

Reaching the island of St. Antonio, another stop, this time at Praça da República (Republic Square) to admire the imposing Palace of Campo das Princesas (Field of Princesses) (1841), Teatro de Santa Isabel (Nineteenth Century) and Court of Justice and dazzle with the richness of the Golden Chapel.

Now, on the way to the House of Culture, where you will find the best in northeastern handicrafts, with a view of Aurora Street, with their stately homes reflected in the waters of the Capibaribe River.

Reaching Olinda, the very first capital of Pernambuco a city granted by UNESCO as "Cultural and Natural Heritage of Mankind", a discovery of a magical place.

Through streets and slopes of irregular stones, adorned by colorful housing, a visit to ancient churches, the monastery of St. Benedict, whose main altar, valuable example of the Brazilian Baroque, was exposed in the exhibition "Brazil Body and Soul", held in 2001 at the Guggenheim Museum, New York. Rua do Amparo (Street) with workshops of artisans and painters, the Largo da Misericordia (Misericórdia Square) and the Cathedral, with its endless horizon of viewpoints and the chance to taste a delicious tapioca (Cassava) with cheese.